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Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to require opt-in for ad tracking — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post
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Facebook says it will assist Epic Games in its legal battle against Apple, including providing supporting documents — Social-networking company also dials up criticism of Apple's plan to allow iPhone users to restrict access to personal data — Facebook Inc. said it would assist …
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Apple responds to Facebook's criticism of iOS 14 privacy measures, says Facebook won't be forced to change how it tracks users, but it must give users a choice — Apple has responded to Facebook's criticism over an upcoming iOS 14 privacy measure — specifically a change that will require users …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @timsweeneyepic, and @arainert
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Texas AG says the state and nine others have filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming Google illegally hurt competition in the ad tech market — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he's leading a multi-state lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.
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Substack Blog, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Tweets: @substackinc, @delia_cai, @charlesflehman, @film_girl, @jake_k, @edbott, @rklau, @britnidlc, @rklau, @sub8u, @ebencuya, @tim_stevens, and @pratikpoddar
| Jacob Cohen Donnelly / A Media Operator: |
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Fred's Newsletter. Tweets: @can, @annehelen, @mathewi, @jryedinak, @tomcritchlow, and @jaycodon
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says its new Chromecast with Google TV will get an Apple TV app in early 2021, giving users access to TV+ originals and iTunes purchases — Coming in early 2021 to the Chromecast with Google TV — Google's latest Chromecast with Google TV is filling in one of its biggest missing apps …
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The Keyword, The Next Web, iMore, Pocket-lint, AFTVnews, Android Police, MSPoweruser, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Variety, Bloomberg, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @caro_milanesi, @markgurman, @richlightshed, and @cgartenberg
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will start removing tweets that spread harmful COVID-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week and will label conspiracies starting in 2021 — It may apply labels early in 2021 — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.
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| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Twitter says it will stop prompting users to Quote Tweet, restoring the standard RT functionality, and says QT use increased but overall sharing dropped by 20% — Well, it was worth a shot. — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will cease prompting users to quote tweet in lieu of the standard retweet.
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Google's Stadia arrives on iOS and iPadOS in beta for mobile web, letting users access their game library on Apple devices — Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an iPad is pretty great — Google Stadia has finally made its way to iOS over a year after launch. The company's mobile web beta …
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Tweets: @googlestadia, @notwaldorf, and @martinsfp
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Netflix is rolling out a Video Off button at the top of the full-screen video player and an audio only mode in settings for its Android app — Netflix might not be playing nicely with Google TV for some reason, but the company is pouring tons of resources into its Android app.| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight — The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement to distribute HBO Max on the Roku platform, starting Thursday — Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement for the distribution of the HBO Max on the Roku platform — nearly seven months after the streaming service launched.
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Tweets: @sarafischer, @ercboxoffice, @curtishouck, @sarafischer, @richlightshed, and @kateaurthur
| Washington Post: |
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims — When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring …
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Tweets: @senblumenthal, @shashj, @alexadobrien, @mdudas, and @find_evil
| The Guardian: |
Invoices show Israeli surveillance firm Rayzone leased access to SS7 traffic from a Channel Islands mobile operator to spy on cell communications and locations — The Israeli private intelligence company Rayzone Group appears to have had access to the global telecommunications network via …
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The Bureau of Investigative …. Tweets: @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @zackwhittaker, @jsrailton, @karlbode, and @vijayshekhar
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BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' data, raises $70M Series D led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global at a valuation of $1B+ — BigID, a NYC-based leader in data discovery and intelligence for privacy, protection and perspective, raised $70Mm in series D financing …
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, New York Business Journal, and Security Boulevard
Tweets: @edsim, @shomikghosh21, and @etdurbin
| CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin crosses $20K to reach an all-time high after doubling in the past three months — After testing investor patience for three weeks, bitcoin has finally crossed above $20,000 to reach fresh all-time highs. — The number one cryptocurrency by market value jumped …
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| danah boyd / LinkedIn: |
The Biden administration needs a VP of Engineering to debug problems that prevent government agencies from successfully building and deploying technical systems — If you look at the roster of the Biden-Harris transition team, it's quickly apparent that the incoming administration is tech-forward.
Tweets: @zephoria, @frankpasquale, @ldrogen, @joybonaguro, @digiphile, @internetrebecca, @mikeolson, and @cydharrell
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest says it will adopt recommendations from a special committee created to address racial and gender discrimination, including unconscious bias training — Pinterest has committed to adopting the recommendations from its special committee of the Board of Directors, the company wrote in a blog post today.
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Fast Company, Pinterest Newsroom, Social Media Today, and The Verge
Tweets: @rtulshyan, @harrymccracken, and @beingbrina
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Dutch prosecutors find researcher Victor Gevers did successfully log into Donald Trump's Twitter account; the White House and Twitter denied the incident — Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - “MAGA2020!”| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple AirPods Max review: high-luxury design, terrific sound quality, and very effective noise cancellation, but they are heavy and the case is an abomination — Apple's over-ear headphones have tremendous build quality and sound, but there's no denying they're expensive
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PCMag, British GQ, Android Police, AppleInsider, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @tldtoday, @zollotech, @lukemiani, @snazzyq, @danielpunkass, @tldtoday, @maxwinebach, @scobleizer, @tomwarren, @marcoarment, @scobleizer, and @ourielohayon
| William Boston / Wall Street Journal: |
Germany says it will permit the use of Huawei's 5G tech after receiving assurances from the company about its safety, pending parliamentary approval — New network-security legislation is latest rebuke to U.S. effort to rein in Chinese tech giant — BERLIN—The German government …
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Financial Times and Thurrott
Tweets: @baldingsworld, @m_johnston1, @stuwoo, @thomas_reichart, and @thorstenbenner
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Coalition for App Fairness says Digital Content Next, representing NYT, NPR, WaPo, and others, has joined; the coalition calls for the regulation of app stores — A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing … | Dawn Kawamoto / San Francisco Business Journal: |
Upstart, whose P2P lending software uses AI to make credit decisions and eliminate fraud, closes at $29.47 per share, up 47.4% on its first day of trading — Upstart soared 47.4% on its first day as a newly minted public company Wednesday, a marked contrast to the rocky IPO debut of Bay Area e-commerce company Wish.
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MarketWatch, Silicon Valley Business …, and CNBC
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Log data analytics service ChaosSearch raises $40M Series B co-led by Stripes and Moore Strategic Ventures, bringing its total raised to $59M — Log data analytics platform company ChaosSearch Inc. said today it has closed on a $40 million round of funding.
Tweets: @quinnypig
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is testing a revamped Instagram Lite app for Android in India, months after it shut down the less data intensive version worldwide — Facebook is working to bring back the Instagram Lite app, months after it shut down the light version offering worldwide.
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XDA Developers and Social Media Today
Tweets: @iateyourmic, @hayatohuseman, @thetymonbay, @shlok_bharadwaj, and @mattnavarra
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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Reclaim The Net, Input, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @rmac18, @stephaniemlee, @rmac18, @mattlynley, @xtophercook, @mattlynley, @jfagone, @jamesrbuk, and @mattlynley
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is building a tool within Marketplace that lets users find and book services like home repairs, competing with Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and others — Facebook is planning to let its users find and book services through its app, a move that could position the social media giant …
Tweets: @alexeheath
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